Word: roundelay
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...theatrical main stem and mainstream-Tom Courtenay and Freddie Jones are making their way deftly through an adept and affectionate comedy called The Dresser, concerning the trials of a third-rate classical actor on a perpetual tour of the provinces. Practically next door is a new Alan Ayckbourn roundelay called Taking Steps, an alternately hilarious and melancholy meditation on adulteries among the middle classes. The West End can play up raunch (Wot' No Pyjamas! and-yes, in its tenth year-No Sex Please- We 're British) as well as tradition (yes, going strong and apparently about to enter...
What propels virtually every Godard male into treating women as a caveman would a woolly mammoth? Is it fear or loathing? Every Man is a catalogue of bestiality. A seedy businessman orchestrates a four-person roundelay of sexual degradation. A man casually asks Paul: Have you ever thought about sodomizing your eleven-year-old daughter? Later, Paul verbally flogs the girl with sexual epithets.This is man, Godard is saying; I am man.Give credit where it is due: Godard has no fear of exposing himself on film. "Paul Godard" (his father's name) is an admitted self-portrait, a skull...
...design for the future of Europe. More specifically, it can be a prime indicator of whether the present trend toward detente in Europe will develop into an era of genuine peace. But there is also a danger that the conference could bog down and become little more than a roundelay of ritual and rhetoric. Much depends on the Soviet Union, which has been pressing for a security conference of some sort for nearly two decades...
...bonus of 100 marks ($31?"every 'time he"set a personal record with his army sports club. He proceeded to swim various distances and strokes, each time setting his own record without extending himself; then he would go back and swim the events again, fractionally faster, for a roundelay of premiums...
...round" of the title is a roundelay of love in ten episodes; after each amorous intrigue, one of the lovers moves, in the next episode, into the arms of a new partner, who flits in turn to another lover until the ironic game comes full circle. Through the cycle runs a delightful Oscar Straus waltz, signaling each consummation, helping to set a gauzily Viennese mood, and accompanying a refrain sung and spoken by Narrator Walbrook. The narrator spins a symbolic merry-go-round and manages the characters like a master puppeteer, pops up in each episode as a waiter, doorman...